First, Clay Bavor, product management director for Google Apps, told the folks at the UK V3 site: "We have no plans to build out Windows apps. We are very careful about where we invest and will go where the users are, but they are not on Windows Phone or Windows 8."
Then on the Google Official Blog, VP of engineering Benkat Panchapakesan said, "Starting January 30, 2013, consumers won't be able to set up new devices using Google Sync," a comment that was widely, incorrectly